Just so everyone knows, I'm ignoring this thread as the PEP I'm drafting with Donald and Nathaniel is nearly finished and thus has already settled on the file format discussion and I haven't heard a new point made on any file format proposal that has already been brought up previously.
On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 10:10 Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10 May 2016 at 13:40, Wolfgang <tds...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > So why not use the ConfigParser available with Python and extend it to > meet > > the requirements. Custom getters can be written and for the complex > > stuff ast.literal_eval() can be used to safely parse the complex list > > of requirements with comments. > > Sadly, pip needs to work on Python 2.6+, so we can't use these new > features of configparser. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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